Programme Index

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Ends 9.00.

Playdays
Peggy Patch looks for ponies in the New Forest.
(R) (S)

7.20 Popeye and Son
Spinach guzzling adventures with the muscular sailor and his young sidekick.
(R) (S)

7.35 Rugrats
A triple bill of fun with the loveable youngsters.
(R) (S)

8.00 Hero to Zero
Charlie has a row with Michael Owen.
(For cast see Friday)
(R) (S)

8.25 Blue Peter
Children's magazine.
(Shown yesterday at 5pm on BBC1)
(S) (W)

8.50 El Nombre
Don Fandango is up to no good when the fair comes to town.
(R) (S)

Contributors

Himself (Hero to Zero):
Michael Owen

Ends 12.05.

Wild Instinct
The gang help a new arrival at the zoo to discover his true identity.
(S)

10.05 Arthur
Two adventures with the young aardvark.
(R) (S)

10.35 Linford's Record Breakers
Linford Christie and Sally Gray witness a world-record canoe drop over a waterfall.
(R) (S)

11.00 Sheeep
Georgina is elected this year's Sheeep Queen.
(R) (S)

11.15 Teletubbies
The aerial-sporting quartet watch two girls go for a tram ride.
(R) (S)

11.40 Tweenies
Max shows the Tweenies how to look after Doodles.
(R) (S) (W)
BBC Music: Best Friends Forever album

Contributors

Presenter (Linford's Record Breakers):
Linford Christie
Presenter (Linford's Record Breakers):
Sally Gray

Classic romantic drama continuing the Humphrey Bogart season.

Rick's Cafe in wartime Casablanca is a watering hole for criminals, refugees, resistance fighters and Nazis. Its cynical owner, a mysterious American, sticks his neck out for no one, until the arrival of the beautiful Ilsa Lund and her husband Victor Laszlo.
Review page 58.
(1942, U) *****
(BW) (S)
(The Treasure of the Sierra Madre concludes the season tomorrow 1.15pm)

Contributors

Director:
Michael Curtiz
Rick Blaine:
Humphrey Bogart
Ilsa Lund:
Ingrid Bergman
Victor Laszlo:
Paul Henreid
Captain Louis Renault:
Claude Rains
Major Strasser:
Conrad Veidt

Esther Rantzen presents a general election programme in which viewers, local radio listeners and e-mailers can put forward their views and questions about the Labour Party.
(S)
Contact Details: telephone [number removed] or e-mail [email address removed]

Regional Programme: viewers receiving the digital satellite signal will see Homeground, which looks at enthusiasts' restoration of Warbird, a Hurricane fighter plane which crashed in Somerset during the Second World War.

Contributors

Presenter:
Esther Rantzen
Executive Director:
Cath Hearne
Producer:
James Cameron

In the first of four programmes from last year's series in which bosses return to the shop floor, House of Fraser chief executive John Coleman goes to work in his Oxford Street department store during the final weeks of its £20 million pre-Christmas refit.
(R) (S) (W)

Contributors

Subject:
John Coleman
Producer:
Veronica Clifford
Series Producer:
Hugh Dehn

Another edition of the motoring magazine, featuring car news and road-tests of the latest models. With Jason Barlow, Vicki Butler-Henderson and Tiff Needell.
(S) (W)
BBC Top Gear Magazine: price £3.40, available monthly from newsagents

Contributors

Presenter:
Jason Barlow
Presenter:
Vicki Butler-Henderson
Presenter:
Tiff Needell
Producer:
John Wilcox
Series Producer:
Richard Pearson

In the first of a new three-part series looking at the achievements of pioneering mountaineers, British Everest climber Stephen Venables follows in the footsteps of the indefatigable Edward Whymper, who reached the last unconquered peak of the Alps in 1865 only for tragedy to befall.
(S) (W)
Heart of the Matterhorn: page 17

Contributors

Subject:
Stephen Venables
Producer:
Mick Conefrey
Executive Producer:
Olivia Lichtenstein

Musically adept comic Bill Bailey tries persuading Paul Merton to consign to oblivion his pet hates, which include bras.
(R) (S) (W)

Contributors

Presenter:
Paul Merton
Guest:
Bill Bailey
Director:
Geraldine Dowd
Producer:
Richard Wilson

Joseph Stalin is seen outside his native land as one of history's most deplorable tyrants, but throughout the former Soviet states a cult of Stalin still exists. This film documents Stalin's development from would-be provincial priest to ruthless autocrat, and shows how he exploited the repression of the Russian Orthodox Church, using visual propaganda, to reinvent himself as a quasi-religious idol.
(S) (W)

Contributors

Director/Producer:
Fred Baker

(Repeats are not indicated)

Open Science
12.30 Final Frontier
(S) (W)
1.00 The Addiction Files
1.35 What Have the Nineties Ever Done for Us?
1.45 Background Brief: Time Travel for Beginners
2.00 Apples, Risks and Recriminations
(S)
2.30 First Steps to Autonomy
2.50 Ever Wondered?
3.00 Our Invisible Sun

Curriculum Development
3.30 ICT - Higher Order Skills in the Secondary School
(S)

Languages
4.00 How to Learn a Language

Working in Sport and Leisure
5.00 TV 10: The Future

Open University
6.00 Environmental Solutions?
(S)
6.30 Large Scale Production
(W)
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